Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 15, 2026
Concert Journal is a personal concert-history app from Townsend Industrial, LLC (“we”, “us”). It lets you track the shows you’ve attended, save their setlists, add your own photos, and play the setlists back through Apple Music.
The short version: We don’t have accounts, we don’t ask who you are, and we don’t track you or run ads. Your concert history, photos, and notes stay on your device and sync through your own iCloud — we never receive them. The only things that leave your device are the searches and requests needed to look up concert data, and they are not tied to your identity.
No accounts, and where your data lives
Concert Journal has no sign-in and no user accounts. We do not create a profile for you on our servers. Everything you add — the shows you’ve attended, saved setlists, photos, notes, and statistics — is stored on your device and synced across your own devices through your personal iCloud account (Apple’s CloudKit). That data is handled by Apple on your behalf; we never receive it.
Concert data lookups
To show artists, venues, upcoming concerts, and setlists, the app contacts our
concert-data service (the UnderPlay API, api.underplayapi.com). When you search
or open a show, the app sends the relevant query (for example an artist name, venue, or
setlist identifier) to return results. These requests are authenticated with a
single shared application key that is the same for every copy of the app, so
a request cannot be tied back to you or your device. We do not attach a user
ID, device identifier, or advertising identifier.
Location
Location is used only to show upcoming concerts near you. If you grant location access, your approximate location is used to query nearby shows. If you do not share location, nearby shows are approximated from your IP address instead. The IP address is not stored and is not linked to any personally identifiable data. We do not track your movements or keep a location history.
Apple Music playback
Playing a setlist uses Apple Music through Apple’s MusicKit, and requires an active Apple Music subscription. Your Apple Music account, library, and subscription status are handled entirely by Apple’s MusicKit on your device. We never receive them. Browsing setlists, adding shows, and everything else work without a subscription.
Photos
You can attach your own photos to a show. Photos are accessed through Apple’s Photos framework with your permission, and are stored on your device and in your iCloud along with the rest of your data. Your photos are never uploaded to our servers.
Optional setlist.fm sync
You may optionally enter a setlist.fm username to sync shows you’ve marked as attended there. This is entirely optional and not required to use the app. If you provide a username, it is used only to fetch your attended shows from setlist.fm.
Tickets
“Find tickets” opens Ticketmaster in your browser to complete a purchase. No purchases are made inside the app, and we do not process payments.
What we store, and where
- On your device / in your iCloud: your attended shows, saved setlists, photos, notes, preferences, and statistics. This is yours; we never receive it.
- On our server: public concert reference data (artists, venues, events, setlists) and match/lookup caches that make the app fast. These are not associated with any individual.
- In your device Keychain: the shared application credentials the app uses to talk to our data service. This is not personal information.
What we do not do
- No user accounts, sign-in, names, emails, or phone numbers.
- No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
- No third-party analytics or tracking SDKs.
- No selling or sharing of data with data brokers.
- No location history or movement tracking.
Third parties
Looking up concert data necessarily contacts our own data service and, for playback and setlist data, Apple (Apple Music) and setlist.fm. Their handling of the requests they receive is governed by their own policies. Concert Journal is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple, setlist.fm, or Ticketmaster.
Children
Concert Journal is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If we change this policy we’ll update the date above and post the new version at this page.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Reach us from the support page.